Wraysbury
Wraysbury is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in England.
Wraysbury is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in England. It is under the western approach path of London Heathrow Airport. It is located on the east bank of the River Thames, roughly midway between Windsor and Staines-upon-Thames, and 18 miles (29 km) west by south-west of London. Historically part of Buckinghamshire, Wraysbury was made part of the new non-metropolitan county of Berkshire in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. The Wraysbury Reservoir is located to the east, administratively wholly in the Spelthorne district of Surrey, although it was historically divided between Buckinghamshire and Middlesex.
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Worth seeing in and around Wraysbury
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London, formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London. It has 3 faculties, 12 academic departments and approximately 10,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from more than 100 countries.
3.8 km · university in Surrey, UK · Wikipedia - 02Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building.
3.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Windsor Great Park
Windsor Great Park is a royal park of 2,020 hectares to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. It is adjacent to the private 265-hectare Home Park, which is nearer the castle.
3.9 km · Royal Park near the town of Windsor, England · Wikipedia - 04Frogmore Cottage
Frogmore Cottage is a historic Grade II listed home on the Frogmore estate, which is part of Home Park in Windsor, England. The cottage was described as a 5,089 sq ft, five bedroom and nursery, four bathroom single-residence house in 2020.
3.8 km · building in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Royal Burial Ground
The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family. Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
3.7 km · cemetery used by the British Royal Family, surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore Estate · Wikipedia - 06The Royal Mausoleum
The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England.
3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Adelaide Cottage
Adelaide Cottage is a house in Windsor Home Park just east of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Built in 1831 for Queen Adelaide, it was previously the home of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children.
3.5 km · historic house in Windsor Home Park · Wikipedia - 08Frogmore Estate
Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises 33 acres, of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate.
3.6 km · private gardens within the grounds of the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Air Forces Memorial
The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, in Englefield Green, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from air forces of the British Empire who were lost in air and other operations during World War II. Those recorded have no known grave anywhere in the world, and many were lost without trace. The name of each of these airmen and airwomen is engraved into the stone walls of the memorial, according to country and squadron.
2.4 km · memorial in Englefield Green, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Founder's Building
The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaux such as Château de Chambord.
3.8 km · Gothic Revival original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London; in Egham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wraysbury
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 7 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km · London Luton (LTN), 48 km
- Stations
- Egham railway station, 3.1 km · Wraysbury railway station, 700 m · Sunnymeads railway station, 1.4 km · Datchet railway station, 3.4 km · Yeoveney Halt railway station, 2.3 km
- London → Wraysbury31 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3.5–4.5
- Luton, Luton → Wraysbury48 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Wraysbury31 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3.5–4.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wraysbury
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wraysbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Wraysbury
Wraysbury is 20 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Eghamtown in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England3.2 km
- Datchetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Old Windsorvillage and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England2.4 km
- Hortonvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Colnbrookvillage in Berkshire, UK3.5 km
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